Monday Memory- A Day At The Mall

It was Valentines Day 2004 and the girls decided to walk Arizona Mills Mall.  What an interesting day it turned out to be. 

We saw a clown making balloon animals and the kids loved it!

 

Will, Kaitlen, Wayne and RaLee each got a balloon

 

Then there was the Hermit Crab Vendor…Will loved all things creepy crawly.  So Crystal lifted him up to look at the crabs.  He wanted one so bad but Crystal had other feelings…. 

The vendor tried to convince her that they were perfectly harmless as William observed…

When She freaked out over them Will decided he didn’t want anything that made mommy that scared! One very concerned little boy We said goodbye to the Hermit Crabs and saw this sign… Hmmmmm  Kaitlen needs her ears pierced!  So we got on the list while the little ones tried on some Valentine head gear….

 Then it was Kaitlen’s turn.  They gave her a sucker to keep her still while Aunt Crystal held her… Then Mommy took over and as you can see she was one very unhappy little girl!

 She wanted Aunt RaLee and she told her all about the awful experience… We got her a purple sucker and she felt much better…

Then, we have no pictures for what happened next but a little while later Will and Kaitlen disappeared from us.  We started looking and looking and getting more and more frightened.  Crowds of people everywhere and no kids in sight.  We went back to the crab vendor, the clown, and Claire’s but no kids.  I found a guard and he radioed for help.  Still no kids.  So they shut the mall down and called a “code Adam”.  What a scary feeling that was and how crappy you feel as a parent because you couldn’t keep an eye on your kids.  But they were finally found, I think they were in a dressing room, but what a relief!

Then we went to …

We decided to eat here and thought how fun it would be for the kids, no we were not feeling guilty about losing the children not one little bit, so I tried to get Kaitlen’s picture with Mr. Frog and she was terrified and ended up screaming at the top of her lungs then…

William saw the crocodile in the water, and it scared him so bad.  Now we have two terrified children, so let’s just say we decided not to eat at the Rainforest.   The poor kids thought the mall was a pretty scary place.  They have scary Crabs, lots of places to get lost then mommy gets upset and cries, giant frogs and crocodiles, and some mean ladies that shoot holes in your ears. 

So we left the mall and went to McDonald’s to make up for scaring our children half to death.  All in All it was a pretty good day!